United States of America

Union Square Ventures (USV) stands as a leading venture capital firm renowned for its strategic investments in groundbreaking technology companies. Established in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham, the firm has been a consistent player in the ever-evolving landscape of early-stage and growth-stage investments.

Union Square Ventures

Andreessen Horowitz, often referred to as "a16z," is a prominent venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, both of whom are well-known figures in the tech industry. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and has gained a reputation for its investments in technology companies, particularly in the areas of software, internet, and more recently, blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Coinbase Ventures is the venture capital arm of Coinbase, one of the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Coinbase Ventures is focused on investing in early-stage companies and projects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. It provides funding, resources, and support to startups and entrepreneurs working on innovative blockchain and crypto-related technologies and applications.

Coinbase Ventures

Early stage blockchain venture capital. A JV with Lightspeedvp

Faction

Distributed Global is an investment firm focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem.

Distributed Global

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.

Sound Ventures

Our belief is that the best ideas happen offline. Far away from the everyday. Away from the complexity of modern society and it’s mores. We exist to help founders find the space to create. To think big, original, and different. Then, to ensure founders and their teams stay healthy on the journey to take that thinking and transform the world. Withthe hope that along the way, beautiful companies are born that are driven by both profit and purpose while taking great care of the world around them. In the end, we believe the foundational technology breakthroughs that most benefit humanity are forged at the intersection of science, engineering, design, and art.

Offline Ventures

XMTP

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining a16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of FoundersFund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Balaji Srinivasan

IDEO CoLab Ventures is a venture capital (VC) arm associated with IDEO CoLab, an innovation and design consultancy. IDEO CoLab Ventures focuses on investing in and supporting startups that are developing innovative technologies and solutions in emerging fields such as blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), and Web3 technologies.

IDEO CoLab Ventures

Finland

Founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is an experienced businessman with extensive knowledge of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and financial technology.

Stani Kulechov

Portugal

Fernando Martinelli

Scalar Capital provides fund management and advisory services.

Scalar Capital

United Kingdom

Semantic Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in new directions for data and the digital economy.

Semantic Ventures

Nascent is a team of builders who back early-stage crypto founders creating products and primitives for an open financial world.

Nascent

Australia

Kain Warwick

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Ryan Selkis

New Form Capital

Anthony Sassano

Alexis Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an entrepreneur and investor in Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder and executive chair of reddit, a platform for online communities to share links and have discussions.

Alexis Ohanian

Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent.

Itamar Lesuisse

Anthony Pompliano

Diogo Monica

Robert Leshner

Roham Gharegozlou

Scott Belsky

Meltem Demirors

Betaworks is a startup studio that builds and invests in next generation internet companies.

Betaworks

Warburg Serres Investments is a boutique venture capital fund focused on Blockchain Technology, IoT, AI/ML, Additive Manufacturing.

Warburg Serres Investments

Atelier Ventures

Ryan Sean Adams

DAOs, Social Tokens and the future of work.

Jess Sloss

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Dan Romero

Canada

Seb Audet is the CEO & Co-Founder at Zapper.

Seb Audet

Michael Dunworth

Kayvon Beykpour

Tegan Kline

Leyden Ventures

Not Boring Capital

Redpoint Ventures

An early stage venture capital firm run by Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin.

SK Ventures

Israel

StarkWare Industries develops a full-proof stack in generating and verifying proofs of computational integrity in the blockchain.

StarkWare Industries

Bryan Flynn is the COO & Cofounder of Sun & Swell Foods. He attended Loyola Marymount University, College of Business Administration in 2009.

Bryan Flynn

Bryan Irace

Chris has masterminded three of the world’s most popular websites. As Co-Founder and Creative Director of TheSpark.com, Chris oversaw development of both TheSpark.com and SparkNotes.com. TheSpark earned acclaim as Maxim magazine “Site of the Year,” Yahoo’s “Best of the Web” and countless press mentions including USA Today, Jane, Time, and Newsweek.SparkNotes.com remains the world’s most popular educational website and has been written up in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and U.S. News.
As Co-Founder of OkCupid, Chris is once again trying to bring people happiness — this time by playing matchmaker. Chris graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Mathematics.

Chris Coyne

Chris is a Director of Product at Vimeo, where he oversees the OTT product suite. He is deeply passionate about building great products, teams, and companies. Prior to their acquisition by Vimeo, Chris worked with the VHX team to launch several video products. Before that, he managed new product development for Samsung’s NYC R&D lab, andhelped build Shelby.tv, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014 to help build the future of TV. When he’s not working with startups or building products, you can find Chris teaching at Cornell Tech, playing a game of DOTA2, or writing riffs on his guitar. Chris lives in New York with his wife and son.

Chris Kurdziel

Cooper Turley

Derek Colla

Ireland

Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building products, leading teams, and creating communities.

Over the years he has: built and sold a company, built and failed to sell a company, made angel investments, hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought thousands of people together to collaborate and do goodthings.
As of June 2019, he's working on Boundless: making it easy for businesses to employ people in other countries and be compliant with tax and employment law.

Eamon Leonard

Jamie Dubs

Jesse is a graduate of Union College where he majored in Computer Science and Economics. Going completely off the fixed path, Jesse worked at SFX Entertainment specializing in RFID payment technologies and live-event management. In 2012, Jesse found a love for bitcoin and decentralized technologies, he realized their importance and continuedlearning when writing his thesis on Cryptocurrency. He continues his passion for music and technology at Consensys and looks forward to reshaping the future.

Jesse Grushack

Martin Green is the managing partner and Co-CIO at Cambrian Asset Management LLC. He earned his degree at Queen's University.

Martin Green

Maxwell Krohn

Michael Mignano is a technology executive and entrepreneur, who currently serves as Head of Talk for Spotify, responsible for leading the podcast, live, and video strategies for the world’s leading audio streaming platform. Prior to this, Michael co-founded Anchor in 2015, which was acquired by Spotify in 2019, and is now the world’s largestpodcasting platform.
In addition to his work at Spotify, Michael actively advises and invests in early stage, technology-enabled companies, including AdQuick, Cameo, Coda, Dumpling, The Infatuation, Infinite Objects, Katch, Light Phone, Living Carbon, Magic, MicroAcquire, Nexhealth, Parade, Pawp, Pipe, Playbyte, Polywork, Sandbox VR, Stir, Ten Little, Universe, XMTP, Zola, and several others that have yet to launch.

Michael’s work focuses on empowering people to express themselves creatively across a variety of mediums, including podcasts, photos, music, and software. In 2019, Michael was recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the most influential young people in business in their annual 40 Under 40 List.

Prior to founding Anchor, Michael served as VP of Product for Aviary, growing the photo editing platform’s audience to over 100 million creators before being acquired by Adobe in 2014. He previously led Digital Product Development for Atlantic Records after starting his career as a consultant.

Michael Mignano

Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost.

Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University ofCambrigdge.

Rahul Vohra

Reggie James is the founder and CEO of Eternal.

Reggie James

Dragonfly Capital Partners, commonly referred to as Dragonfly Capital, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Dragonfly Capital is known for its active involvement in the blockchain and crypto industry and its commitment to supporting innovative projects and companies.

Dragonfly Capital

Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital.

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Circle Ventures focuses on proprietary capital investments in the technology sector.

Circle Ventures

Altos Ventures is a venture capital firm and registered investment advisor with more than $8 billion in regulated assets under management.

Altos Ventures

Portage is a global investment platform focused on fintech and financial services.

Portage Ventures

Commerce Ventures

Helios Investment Partners

Conduit

Jump Crypto, a division of the Jump Trading Group, is a global leader in Web3 infrastructure development and investment.

Jump Crypto

Gemini Frontier Fund is a strategic venture fund focused on growing the crypto ecosystem through investment in early-stage crypto projects.

Gemini Frontier Fund

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. 
The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Gaingels

Asiff S. Hirji has served as a director of the Company since May 2006.

Asiff Hirji

Inovia Capital

Germany

Discovery Ventures

Core Innovation Capital is a venture capital firm investing in companies committed to empowering small businesses.

Core Innovation Capital

Nik Milanovic

Gradient Ventures helps founders build transformational AI companies.

Gradient Ventures

Fin is an asset management firm investing full lifecycle in FinTech and adjacent verticals in principally B2B enterprise SaaS companies.

Fin Capital

Diagram co-founds companies that pursue big ideas in the financial and insurance sectors

Diagram Ventures

Simon Taylor

Mark Britto

Gary Marino

Rex Salisbury

An early stage venture capital firm investing in consumer and enterprise technology companies

a_capital

Collab+Currency is an early stage venture investor focusing on web3

Collab+Currency

Palm Tree Crew

Snoop Dogg

Ryan Tedder

Tay Keith

Sound.xyz

Variant is an early-stage fund investing in web3. They believe the next generation of the internet will transform users into owners. They back mission-aligned founders at the earliest possible stage

Variant

Singapore

LAO is a member-led venture fund built on the spirit of Ethereum’s original DAO. As a global collective of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts, LAO invests in early-stage projects that push the boundaries of DeFi, NFTs, privacy, and Web3 social applications.

The Lao

Trevor McFedries is the Founder and CEO of Brud.

Trevor McFedries

Weekend Fund is a venture capital and angel investing firm focused on making early-stage investments.

Weekend Fund

Packy McCormick is the founder of Not Boring. He attended Duke University.

Packy McCormick

Marc Weinstein

Sina Habibian

Flamingo DAO

Hong Kong

Animoca Brands is a global digital entertainment company that specializes in the development and publishing of mobile games, blockchain-based games, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). They are known for creating and publishing a wide range of popular games, including licensed intellectual properties such as Formula 1, Doraemon, and MotoGP. Animoca Brands is also heavily involved in the blockchain gaming space, leveraging the benefits of blockchain technology and NFTs to create unique gaming experiences.

Animoca Brands

Bahamas (The)

FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops a mobile trading platform.

FTX Ventures

LionTree Partners is a service provider and investment banking fund that invests in media, technology, and telecommunication.

LionTree

ApeCoin

Malta

YZi Labs is an investment firm formerly known as Binance Labs that invests in all stages of development in the fields of Web3, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology.

YZi Labs (prev Binance Labs)

Mark Cuban is a prominent American entrepreneur, investor, television personality, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA basketball team. He is known for his success in the tech industry, particularly during the dot-com boom. Cuban is known for his outspoken and often controversial opinions on a wide range of topics, including technology, politics, and sports. He is also a vocal advocate for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Mark Cuban

OKX Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality and promising projects, with an initial capital of $100 million.

OKX Ventures

P2 Ventures is dedicated to supporting visionary teams across the multichain ecosystem. We invest at the earliest stages across all categories in web3.

P2 Ventures

Redbeard Ventures builds, invests, and advises startups that help to gain a keen sense of what really matters when building a company.

Red Beard Ventures

Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. He focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. An accomplished entrepreneur and executive, Reid has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses, including LinkedIn and PayPal. Hepossesses a unique understanding of consumer behavior and the dynamics of viral businesses, as well as deep experience in driving companies from the earliest stages through periods of explosive, “blitzscale” growth. Ranging from Linkedin to PayPal, from Airbnb to Convoy to Facebook, Reid invests in businesses with network effects and collaborates on building their product ecosystems. Reid co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service, in 2003. LinkedIn is thriving with more than 500 million members around the world and a diversified revenue model that includes subscriptions, advertising, and software licensing. He led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid served as executive vice president at PayPal, where he was also a founding board member. Reid is an accomplished investor. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Gixo, Microsoft, Nauto, Xapo and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZI Biohub and Do Something. Prior to joining Greylock, he angel invested in many influential Internet companies, including Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, and Zynga. Reid is the co-author of two New York Times best-selling books: The Start-up of You and The Alliance. His next book is focused on “blitzscaling”, based on his Stanford course of the same name. Reid is the host of the podcast, Masters of Scale. Reid earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in symbolic systems from Stanford University. In 2010 he was the recipient of an SD Forum Visionary Award and named a Henry Crown Fellow by The Aspen Institute. In 2012, he was honored by the Martin Luther King center’s Salute to Greatness Award. Also in 2012, he received the David Packard Medal of Achievement from TechAmerica and an honorary doctor of law from Babson University. In 2017, Reid was appointed as a CBE by her majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Reid Hoffman

Randall Kaplan

Kun Gao

Holly Liu is co-founder and Chief of Staff of Kabam, a world leader in AAA mobile free-to-play games. Holly also oversees Kabam’s corporate culture as head of People Operations (“People Ops”), which is responsible for driving Kabam’s vision, mission, and values for its more than 800 employees in offices around the world. Holly has helped build aworld-class human resources team that is responsible for recruiting and retaining top talent and has grown Kabam’s personnel base by 500% in three years.
Prior to her role as Chief of Staff, Holly was VP of People Ops and Director of User Experience. She led the product design for Kabam’s award-winning Kingdom’s of Camelot, which has grown into a $250 million franchise in less than four years. Holly was also an initial designer for the mobile extension Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, which was the top grossing app on iOS in 2012.

Before co-founding Kabam, Holly was Senior User Interface Designer for AOL, where she led design of community web products. She has also worked as a consultant for Arthur Andersen and Accenture.

Holly received her Master’s in Information Management & Systems from UC Berkeley and her B.A. in Mass Communications from UCLA. She was named to Forbes’ “Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch” in 2013 and one of Fortune’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Gaming.”

Holly Liu

Guy Oseary has spent his career at the intersection of entertainment and technology.

Guy Oseary

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.

Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”
Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.

Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.

Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.

Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Ashton Kutcher

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Sebastien Borget

Forte

Mark Pincus is our founder and Executive Chairman of the Board. He served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016, and has served as our Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as our Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as our Chief Product Officer from April 2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as its Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he co-founded.

Mark Pincus

KCRise Fund is a Kansas City-based VC firm investing in Seed & Series A stage technology companies in Kansas and western Missouri

			Stage	Investors
XMTP	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series B	+4	Social	Jul 17, 2025
Conduit	$36.00 M	~$360.00 M	Series A	+5	Blockchain Service	May 28, 2025
Sound.xyz Sound.xyz	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A	+6	Music	Jul 12, 2023
APE ApeCoin	$450.00 M	$4.00 B	Equity Round	+2	Metaverse	Mar 22, 2022
CryptoSlam	$9.00 M	~$90.00 M	Seed Round	+19	Blockchain Service	Jan 5, 2022
SUPRA Supra	$4.10 M	~$41.00 M	Seed Round	+4	Blockchain	Jan 2022
NFTFI NFTfi	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+2	NFT	Nov 16, 2021
SAND The Sandbox	$93.00 M	~$930.00 M	Series B Round	+18	NFT	Nov 2021
SYND Syndicate	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A Round	+23	Infrastructure	Aug 2021
XMTP	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A Round	+49	Social	Aug 2021
SUPRA Supra	$2.60 M	~$26.00 M	Pre-seed Round	+6	Blockchain	Jun 15, 2021
BIGTIME Big Time	$10.30 M	~$103.00 M	Series A Round	+3	Gaming	May 12, 2021
XMTP	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+15	Social	Apr 2021
RARE SuperRare	$9.00 M	$62.00 M	Series A Round	+10	NFT	Mar 2021
ZRX 0x Protocol	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Series A	+15	DEX	Feb 5, 2021
Chainalysis	$13.00 M	~$130.00 M	Extended Series B		Blockchain Service	Jul 7, 2020
CVC Civic	$2.75 M	~$27.50 M	Venture Round	+8	Software	Jan 2016

Sound Ventures

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